Date: October 1905
Source: Lenin Collected Works, vol. 26
Pages: 315-315

*Rus'*, 11 October. "On the Formation of a Radical Party. The newly forming radical party in its political program recognizes popular sovereignty as the fundamental principle, and in practice stands for a unicameral system, thereby diverging from the Cadet party. The agrarian and economic program is still insufficiently developed, but in any case does not reach in its final conclusions to the socialization of the means of production and land, or even to the nationalization of the latter. By these features the newly forming party differs substantially from the more extreme parties, the so-called "parties of two letters" (S.D. and S.R.). In its tactics concerning elections, the radical party declares itself for a boycott. The founders of the new party are certain members of unions of lawyers, physicians, railway workers, and others."

1 This extract was made from no. 243 of the newspaper *Rus'* of October 24 (11), 1905. The program of the radical party was published in no. 341 of *Our Life* of December 6 (November 23), 1905.

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EXTRACT FROM THE NEWSPAPER "RUS'"